Top 10 British fighters of all time

My own pick for #1 is Ken Buchanan.

 

Based on what?

 

"BASED ON WHAT"? What the hell do you think?

 

Silky boxing skills at long range and pure boxing, yes. Accomplishments and resume, no.

Whats your criteria for the best British fighters of all-time? Who your favourite is?

 

Turpin is too high. I don't really see how you can rank him ahead of Joe Calzaghe, for example, or Conteh for that matter. Best 'performance ever' perhaps.

 

"resume" :dead

 

Kevin Sheady?

 

Kevin Sheedy indeed. I'll let 'resume' pass because of your knowledge of my all-time favourite footballer. :good

 

Resume regarding Buchanan? He beat a Laguna twice, a well past prime Ortiz. His best wins. Navarro was ok. He beat Jim Watt at British level. And the most important aspect is he lacks longevity at world level. World champion for 1 year and 9 months.

We can argue about his resume all day long. The bottom line is that he's not the best British fighter of all-time.

 

And nothing against Buchanan. I met him at a bookshop 8 years ago and gave him a framed, black and white, potrait drawing of Joe Louis. I certainly hope he's not sold it for his beer money, which he done with the Ali-Bonavena poster he nicked off the front of Madison Square Garden. He sold a lot of his boxing items to a guy in my hometown who owned a pub.

 

Well, you have to remember that Charley Burley is rated pretty highly by students of the game, as well as Sam Langford, and neither of them ever won a title. However, if you insist in disqualifying Buchanan, then I have to name Lennox Lewis and Joe Calzaghe at the top of the list, and not necessarily in that order, and I haven't really considered anyone else at this time.

 

No just the use of the term 'resume'.

 

I can mind watching Everton beat Rapid Vienna, Cup winners cup final. Those are cheats. We beat them fair and square at Parkhead, yet the game got replayed due to an idiot of a fan throwing a bottle at one of there players. The bottle never landed anywhere near him. He even had bandages over his head. Laughable. Earlier in the competition we played them. The game got replayed at Old Trafford and we lost 1-0.

Robbed.